Usamah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Lion, (Dictionary of Islamic Names)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries

/usˈamah/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated

Say it inExplore pronunciation →

Usamah is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 89Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 100Kfew records
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 110Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,800 people, est.

Record sources
79 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)

Saudi Arabia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Usamah

  • Indonesian:/usˈamah/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Malay:/usamah/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Lion,

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of Islamic Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Usamah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Usamah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈2,800 est.≈1 in 101K—Usamah57
SA Saudi Arabia≈400 est.≈1 in 89KlistedUsamah37
MY Malaysia≈330 est.≈1 in 108K—Usamah27
NG Nigeria≈330 est.≈1 in 709K—Usamah15
PK Pakistan≈170 est.≈1 in 1.5MlistedUsamah10
JO Jordan≈52 est.≈1 in 221K—Usamah11
SE Sweden91 in 1.1M9—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Usamah is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, India, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Usāmah

  • Thai given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written อูซามะห์, อุซามะห์, อูซาม๊ะห

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Usāmah

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Usāmah

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Usāmah

  • Bangla given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Also written উসামাহ

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHalo Usamah,Hi Usamah, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Usamah mean, and where does it come from?
Lion, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
How do you pronounce Usamah?
It depends on the language: in Indonesian /usˈamah/; in Malay /usamah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Usamah a male or female name?
Usamah is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Usamah?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Usamah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled usamah. After it come Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Usamah?
In Sweden, the national register counted 9 people named Usamah, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

What do you want to know about Usamah?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/usamah

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Usamah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Usamah parses inside a full name →